Synodic month length 29.44 days

Length of current 966 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 39 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than next lunation 967 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 4 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 8 March 2078 Tuesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠321.6°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠321.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠340.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after apogee

5 days after point of apogee on 2 March 2078 at 22:52 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 March 2078 at 04:04 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 389 990 km

Moon after descending node

3 days after its descending node on 4 March 2078 at 20:48 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 17 March 2078 at 20:05 in ♉ Taurus.

Draconic month

Moon in southern standstill

At 15:26 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-26.812°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠26.910° in its northern standstill point on 21 March 2078 at 05:45 in ♋ Cancer.